Chicken brooder



A. L. KUEHL CHICKEN BROODER.

. June 4, 1929.

Filed March 28, 1927 H eel/4622 INVENTOR ATTO R N EY Patented June 4, 1929.

UNITED smras AIMEE L. KUEHL, OF MINONK ILLINOIS.

CHICKEN BROODEB.

Application filed March 28, 1927. Serial No. 179,101.

This invention relates to certain novel improvements in chicken brooders and has for its principal object the provision of an improved construction of this character which will be highly efficient in use and economical in manufacture.

Among the salient objects of the invention is to provide a chicken brooder which includes a platform comprising a plurality of individual removable sections each provided with a foraminated top wall serving to prevent the feet of the baby chicks from coming into contact with foreign matter.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawing, showing the preferred form of construction,

and in which:

Fig. 1 is a longitudinal vertical sectional detail view of the invention,

Fig. 2 is a. sectional detail view taken substantially on line 2-2 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a sectional detail view taken substantially on line 3-3 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a slidable bottom embodied in the invention.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, showing the preferred form of construction, 10 indicates a heating element of any approved construction used in connection with chicken brooders. Concentrically arranged with respect to the bottom portion of the heating element 10 is a sand mould 11. The heating element 10 supports a canopy 12 having its lower edge portion 13 arranged a substantial distance above the bottom plane of the heating element.

The brooder platform is indicated at 14 and this brooder platform includes a plurality of sections 15 arranged concentrically with respectto the heating element whereby to form a ring like platform. Each section 15 is substantially pan shaped as at 16 and includes a slidable bottom 17 which is supported when in operative position through the medium of inwardly turned flanges 18 formed on the side walls 19 of the pan 16, there being a transverse opening 19' formed in the front wall 20 of each pan to permit removal of the bottom therefrom. The pan is reinforced transversely at its bottom through the medium of a strip 21 secured to adjacent side walls of the pan and at the top the pan is reinforced in an;

opposite direction through the medium of strips 22 secured in any approved manner to inwardly turned flanges 23 formed on the side walls of the pan.

These flanges 23 have secured thereto in any approved manner a foraminated top wall 24:, the mesh of which being of woven character so as to withstand the weight of a plurality of baby chicks without sagging downwardly. The peripheral edge of this foraminated top wall in the present instance is disposed beneath the flanges 23 whereby toprevent injury to the feet of the baby chicks which otherwise would occur if the edges were exposed.

In use the sand mould 11 is first built concentrically with respect to the lower portion of the heating element 10. When this is completed the sections are individually mounted in place in concentric relation, with respect to the heating element whereby to provide a complete ring like platform beneath the canopy 12. The foraminated top wall of each of the sections permits the droppings to be confined in the pans beneath the foraminated top walls from engagement with the feet of the baby chicks.

To clean the pans the pans are individually removed from their concentric position with respect to the heating element and the "bottoms thereof may be expeditiously removed for cleaning purposes.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction for carrying my invention into effect this is capable of variations and modifications without departing from the spirit of the invention. I, therefore, do not want to be limited to the precise details set forth, but wish to avail myself of such variations and modifications as come within the scope of the appended claims.

The invention having been set forth, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a broo'der, the combination with a heating element and a canopy supported by the element, of a platform comprising a plurality of sections, said sections being arranged concentrically with respect to the element and below the canopy, said sections being adapted for individual removal from said concentric position with respect to the element, and said sections including a pan shaped body having a removable bottom, and a fo aminated top wall;

2. In a brooder, the combination with a heating element and a canopy supported by the element, of a platform comprising a plurality of sections, said sections being arranged concentrically with respect to the element and below the canopy and said sections including a pan shaped body having a ren111ovable bottom, and a foraminated top W3 3. In a chicken broo'der, a platform, said platform comprising a plurality of concentrically arranged sections, each of said sections being pan like in shape and having a removable bottom and a foraminated top surface.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

AIMEE L. KUEHL. 

